POLICE OFFICER SHOT
ATTACKED BY BANDITS. MELBOURNE, Sunday. Superintendent John O’Connell Brophy, who began duty as; chief of the Victorian Criminal Investigation branch a week ago, was shot in the face and right arm in some mysterious manner. An official police statement declares that Mr Brophy went to Royal Park on Friday night to try and catch some car bandits who have been operating in that locality and was himself held up by two armed men who apparently recognised him and' fired three shots before Mr Brophy could manipulate his own revolver, which jammed. One bullet passed through Mr Brophy’s lower jaw, just missed a vital artery, and emerged at the back of his neck. Another broke his right wrist and a third was deflected from his heart by the buckle of his braces.
Newspaper reporters, who are banned at the detective office, ascertained that Mr Brophy was shot by a hold-up gang who mistook him for a prominent Melbourne bookmaker who habitually carries a large sum of money and resides in Parkville suburb.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 May 1936, Page 5
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